The human brain is a prediction device, a view widely accepted in neuroscience. Prediction
is a rational and efficient response that relies on the brain's ability to create and employ …

The perception of sensory attributes is often quantified through measurements of sensitivity
(the ability to detect small stimulus changes), as well as through direct judgments of …

Prior knowledge facilitates our perception and goal-directed behaviors, particularly when
sensory input is lacking or noisy. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the …

Sensory perception is widely considered an inference process that reflects the best guess of
a stimulus feature based on uncertain sensory information. Here we challenge this …

A key computation in building adaptive internal models of the external world is to ascribe
sensory signals to their likely cause (s), a process of causal inference (CI). CI is well studied …

Neurons throughout the brain modulate their firing rate lawfully in response to sensory input.
Theories of neural computation posit that these modulations reflect the outcome of a …

A central question in neuroscience is how sensory inputs are transformed into percepts. At
this point, it is clear that this process is strongly influenced by prior knowledge of the sensory …

Perception of motion-in-depth is essential to guide and modify the hitting action in
interceptive-dominated sports (eg, tennis). The purpose of this research was to investigate …

The perception of sensory attributes is often quantified through measurements of
discriminability (the ability to detect small stimulus changes), as well as through direct …

Not every item in a stimulus ensemble equally contributes to the perceived ensemble
average. Rather, items with feature values close to the ensemble mean (inlying items) …